Aviation Education Research Articles

Risk Factor Affecting the Flight Operations of the Royal Thai Army Aviation Units

This research is a survey research. Its purposes were 1) to study the factors that caused the accidents of flight operations in the Royal Thai Army Aviation Units 2) to study and assess the risks of accidents in the Royal Thai Army Aviation Units and 3) to provide guidelines for commanders, pilots and personnel related to aviation to reduce the risk factors affecting the flight operations of the Royal Thai Army Aviation Units. The population in this research were 300 pilots of the Royal Thai Army Aviation Units. Questionnaires were used as research tool. The statistics used were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-Test and one way ANOVA by using statistical package program. The results revealed each aspect as follows: 1) personal factors in terms of marital status: there was the possibility to risk factors in the areas of man, machine, media and mission. In terms of education level: there was the possibility to risk factors in the areas of machine, media, mission and management. 2) Factor of flight experience in terms of flight hours of current specific aircraft: there was the possibility to risk factors in the areas of man and media. In terms of monthly average number of flight operations: there was the possibility to risk factors in the areas of media, mission and management. 3) Factor of aviation knowledge, topics in education and training in aviation. Those who never study in Aviation Safety Officer Course: there was the possibility to risk factors in the areas of overall, machine and management. The results of the risk assessment found that 1) the man factor was a moderate risk 2) the machine factor was a moderate risk 3) the media factor was a high risk 4) the mission factor was a moderate risk and 5) the management factor was a high risk. Guidelines for reducing risk factors of the research results, proposed to the commanders to consider issuing the regulations to reduce the risk factors affecting the flight operations of the Royal Thai Army Aviation Units.

The History of Aviation Education and Training

Aviation education and training began early in the 20th century just after the first successful powered flight of the Wright brothers. In the present paper, the types of aviation education and training around the world are reviewed. Its developments were distinct in many different countries, and in some cases evolved from the military needs while in others from the dedication of a few enthusiasts. In the 21st century aeronautical and aerospace engineering is taught at the most advanced engineering schools in the world providing skills and competences that integrate advanced disciplines.

Team Training for Dynamic Cross-Functional Teams in Aviation: Behavioral, Cognitive, and Performance Outcomes.

This study evaluates the effectiveness of a training program designed to improve cross-functional coordination in airline operations. Teamwork across professional specializations is essential for safe and efficient airline operations, but aviation education primarily emphasizes positional knowledge and skill. Although crew resource management training is commonly used to provide some degree of teamwork training, it is generally focused on specific specializations, and little training is provided in coordination across specializations. The current study describes and evaluates a multifaceted training program designed to enhance teamwork and team performance of cross-functional teams within a simulated airline flight operations center. The training included a variety of components: orientation training, position-specific declarative knowledge training, position-specific procedural knowledge training, a series of high-fidelity team simulations, and a series of after-action reviews. Following training, participants demonstrated more effective teamwork, development of transactive memory, and more effective team performance. Multifaceted team training that incorporates positional training and team interaction in complex realistic situations and followed by after-action reviews can facilitate teamwork and team performance. Team training programs, such as the one described here, have potential to improve the training of aviation professionals. These techniques can be applied to other contexts where multidisciplinary teams and multiteam systems work to perform highly interdependent activities.

Virtualan koncept simbiotičkog okruženja CBL i CBT metoda obrazovanja u sustavu zrakoplovstva

The contribution is informing the reader on the current potentials of improving efficiency in aviation education based on the use of available means of simulation and computer-assisted methods of teaching such as the Computer Based Training a Computer Based Learning, which also enable realization of integrated systems assisted by modern educational methods and potentials for them to be implemented into the aircrew training systems. The authors are introducing a virtual concept of a symbiotic environment for education in aircraft systems. The concept makes use the mutual interrelation of three-dimensional dynamic models of aircraft instruments developed, which can be used for electronic training using simulation interface based on open standards in a virtual environment within a country and later with real onboard complex featuring the Instruments themselves. Attention is drawn to both the advantages and disadvantages of using such dynamic models of aircraft Instruments in aircrew training as well as the practical implementation of such a virtual concept into practice employing computer assisted progressive methods of teaching. The need of improving the quality of education in aviation is a reaction to the requirements coming from actual practice calling for the implementation of intelligent systems into the complex and dynamic systems of aircraft. At the present time, it is the very reason that requires shifting towards learning new ways and acquiring skills in applying progressive technologies to education exercising direct influence on the safety of air transportation.

Estudio para la elaboración de la asignatura electiva “Introducción a las Aeronaves”

Como una inducción al campo de las ciencias aeronáuticas a nivel superior en Honduras, se elabora este estudio con el objetivo de incorporar esta área del conocimiento a la oferta académica que brinda la UNAH a sus estudiantes. La metodología seguida fue la recolección de distintas experiencias del autor en el ambiente aeronáutico Hondureño desde la cual se determinó, la necesidad de conocimientos que se tiene en esta ciencia, así como el tipo de material o tipo de contenidos que se debería desarrollar para una optima enseñanza del tema aeronáutico, específicamente en el funcionamiento básico de una aeronave. Por otro lado, se investigaron los temas que abordan otras Universidades para la iniciación en la enseñanza del campo aeronáutico y con esto hacer un bench-marking adecuándolos a nuestro ambiente nacional.Fruto de este ejercicio se establece un contraste, entre las falencias o lagunas de conocimiento que se pueda tener por parte del personal que ya se desempeña en el campo, y la oferta académica que ya brindan Universidades extranjeras con experiencia en la formación aeronáutica. Esto nos lleva a desembocar en definir temas específicos que deben incluirse en la enseñanza de un primer curso de iniciación a la aeronáutica para futuros estudiantes universitarios, basados en la necesidad nacional y la experiencia internacional en cuanto a la educación aeronáutica a nivel superior.Revista Ciencias Espaciales, Vol. 7(2) 2014, 53-73

Book Review: Competency-Based Education in Aviation: Exploring Alternate Training Pathways

Book Review: Competency-Based Education in Aviation: Exploring Alternate Training Pathways

Quantifying the Effects of Humidity on Density Altitude Calculations for Professional Aviation Education

Quantifying the Effects of Humidity on Density Altitude Calculations for Professional Aviation Education

Aviation Cabin Safety Situated Learning Education Design-An Empirical Study for Elementary Students

Responsibility and obligation of aviation safety are undertaken not only by the crew but also by the passengers in a flight. Therefore, the importance of aviation safety should be recognized by both parties. Current fundamental traffic safety educations in Taiwan are more inclined to road safety and most of the way education is taught in the classroom, this study presents a Cabin mockup-based situated learning education program design with immersive education means to enhance children's understanding of the relevant cabin safety. Due to plasticity of elementary school students are better, this method can not only improve aviation education but also be better achieved popularity aviation knowledge in the long run. A pretest-posttest control group design was used to evaluate the effect of a cabin mockup-based situated learning education program designed to enhance the safety concepts in elementary school students, the results showed that after a different education method, students learning outcomes in the two groups on cabin safety concept presenting significant differences. Significantly better than the control group students (traditional instruction) in the experimental group students (situational experience), and the control group students in the context of strengthening the implementation using cabin mockup simulated leaning education, this can significantly improve the effectiveness of learning into. For airline cabin safety promotion, it is recommended to change the pattern from visiting to cabin experience camp that is because the airlines can use their own cabin mockup to promote the site as a situation education classroom.

“We must learn from Germany”: gliders and model airplanes as tools for Japan’s mass mobilization

This article explores the prominent role of Germany in the emergence of Japan’s glider and model-aircraft boom. It examines how the invitation of German specialists to Japan in 1935 started a “glider fever” that enabled the Japanese military to forge close bonds with the press and an air-minded public. In the following years Nazi Germany also provided the organizational blueprint for comprehensive aviation education that mobilized all aviation activities of Japanese youth in the service of national defense. Japanese anxieties about the expansion of foreign air power thus were successfully channeled into a wave of popular enthusiasm and participation that became instrumental for Japan’s military buildup and mobilization.

Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast Training: Does it exist in Collegiate Aviation?

One of the key elements to NextGen is the transition from the current ground- based radar monitoring system to a satellite-based system using the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast System (ADS-B). The FAA has set a mandate which requires all aircraft to be ADS-B equipped by the year 2020 in order to continue operating in the National Airspace System. However, the FAA has not set forth any training requirements for aviation instructors or designated examiners. This study looked at how ADS-B is currently being taught among aviation educators across the United States and how important this training is to current aviation curriculum. With the information collected, it was determined that only a minimal amount of ADS-B training is currently taking place across the country, and the training that is taking place is non-standardized and limited due to the perception that ADS-B is only to be used as a traffic advisory tool. There was significant difference in the perceived importance of ADS-B, t(73) = -2.79, p < .01 between the flight instructor group and the group containing mostly professors and administrators. Also, a significant difference was found in the comparison of perceived importance and institution, t(73) = -3.11, p < .01. There was no significance found when comparing the perceived importance of ADS-B training to the number of years a respondent had worked as an aviation educator, F(1,73) = .44, p = .508 or the number of hours a respondent had received ADS-B training, F(1,60) = .15, p = .699. There was also no significant difference in the perceived importance of ADS-B training dependent upon if participants operated in a geographic location that had ADS-B coverage, t(73) = -1.88, p = .063. Several factors were discovered as to why there seems to be no current urgency among aviation educators to train their students in this new technology. In addition, recommended steps the FAA could take in order to help aviation educators with the ADS-B training process were suggested.

University Aviation Degree Courses

Universities offering aviation degree courses face a dilemma when integrating flying training, which is vocational skills training, into an academic degree programme. Whilst flying training for a pilot's licence is provided by flying schools regulated by a country's Civil Aviation Authority, the HE sector is responsible for the academic standards of related degree courses. Consequently, integrating these two aspects becomes a complex task. This paper examines the systems of three universities in Australia using a survey designed to identify the issues involved in such integration and its feasibility; and features of the courses. The paper highlights risks and opportunities for universities while considering how far they can proceed with the integration and what benefits it brings for students and universities respectively in employment and course sustainability. The findings may provide guidance for the future sustainable development of aviation courses and support the case that HEIs need to restructure aviation education by responding to rapidly shifting aviation industry requirements and international standards. The study suggests that flying training should be run independent of university degrees, and that the academic curriculum should be restructured to address aviation skills and the knowledge requirements of non-flying jobs in the aviation industry.

The Shadow Staff: Japanese Animators in the Tōhō Aviation Education Materials Production Office 1939–1945

Despite the attention paid by Japanese animation historians to cartoon propaganda films made during the Second World War, twice as much animation may have been produced in the period for military instructional films. These films, now lost, were made by a group of animators seconded to the Tōhō Aviation Education Materials Production Office (Tōhō Kōkū Kyōiku Shiryō Seisaku-sho). Occasionally running for five or six reels (c. 48 minutes), and in one case consisting of a feature-length eight reels, they form the missing link between the one- and two-reel shorts of the 1930s and Japanese animation’s first feature, Momotarō Umi no Shinpei (1945, Momotarō’s Divine Sea Warriors). The films included tactical tips for the pilots who would bomb Pearl Harbor, short courses in identifying enemy ships, and an introduction to combat protocols for aircraft carrier personnel. This article reconstructs the content and achievement of the Shadow Staff from available materials, and considers its exclusion from (and restoration to) narratives of the Japanese animation industry.

Twenty-Eight Years of the Collegiate Aviation Review: An Exploratory Study of Academic Research in Aviation Education

This article reports on a review of academic journal articles published in the Collegiate Aviation Review (CAR), with the goal of evaluating academic research in aviation education. The study included all 189 articles published in the CAR over the past 28 years (1983-2010). The author identified and categorized aviation faculty and industry professionals who have led the aviation profession, academically, and what important issues and challenges they have identified in their scholarly writings over the past 28 years. Each article was categorized by author’s institution/organization affiliation, classification by subject category, and geographical grouping of contributing authors and institutions/organizations. The author found that the journal covers a broad range of authors and subject matter. The top five subject areas covered were: collegiate flight training curriculum and instructional methods, collegiate aviation degree programs, the collegiate aviation student, the airport system, and the commercial airline industry. The author concludes with a discussion of the implications of this study for the role of aviation faculty and industry professionals engaged in aviation education research. The author stresses that this research will help the University Aviation Association (UAA) meet the needs of the continuously changing aviation/aerospace industry.

Homogenous Learning Styles Among Airport Management Professionals

Research on the career paths of airport management professionals included an assessment of learning styles to better understand the psychological profile of those m this career tield. Tbe Kolb Learning Styles Inventory, Version 3 (LSI-3) was used for the study for participants to self-assess their preferences for learning. General research on the validity and reliability of the (LSI-3) indicates that a roughly equal number of the general population categorize themselves in one out of four categories (Accommodators, Assimilators, Convergers, or Divergers). In the research involving airport management professionals, more than two-thirds of the respondents categorized themselves as Divergers. Another 22% categorized themselves as Accommodators. With almost 90% of the sample population represented within two of the four LSI groups, the evidence strongly suggests that airport management professionals prefer to learn by carefully evaluating defmitive outcomes in a social environmental as opposed to action-based experimentation. Curiously, these results are diametrically opposite of similar research tor another aviation related career path military pilots, most of whom (44.2%) categorized themselves as Convergers (Kanske, 1999). This research may have implications in aviation education, particularly for recognizing that some students in collegiate aviation programs may have learning styles that are aligned with airport management professionals as opposed to other technically oriented aviation careers (e.g., commercial pilot). This understanding may be helpful in counseling students, particularly those struggling to fmd an aviation career path that better fits their preferred learning environment.

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Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL), A Teaching Method From Physical Sciences, Promotes Deep Student Learning In Aviation

Aviation educators can increase the depth of student learning in their classes by implementing Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL). The goal of this study was to determine whether POGIL, a uniquely effective teaching strategy used primarily in chemistry or biology, stimulates deeper student learning outside the flight lab. Results from measured test scores on identical assessment instruments between the control and experimental groups indicate the use of POGIL can significantly increase the depth of student learning in collegiate aviation classes with or without a flight lab.

Factors That Influence an Undergraduate Student to Choose a Career in Aviation, and Enroll in the Aviation Science Program at Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology

A study was conducted in the Aviation Science Department, Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology, Saint Louis University, to determine the factors that influence undergraduate students to choose aviation as a career field and Parks College as their choice for their aviation education. This information was gathered to assist Parks College in determining the most effective measures to recruit and retain undergraduate students and what other measures might be considered to improve a student's educational experience at Parks. A paper survey instrument consisting of eight pertinent demographic questions, 67 Likert scale questions, and five open-ended questions were given to a convenience sample of four aviation science classes: one freshman class, one sophomore class, one junior class, and one senior class. The survey population consisted of undergraduate aviation science and aviation management majors. The results of the survey and conclusions are discussed.

The Future of Women in Aviation: Trends in Participation in Postsecondary Aviation Education

THE FUTURE OF WOMEN IN AVU TION: TRENDS IN PARTICIPA TION IN POSTSECONDARY A VU TION EDUCA TION David C. Ison Abstract The purpose of this research was to evaluate the trends in participation by women in postsecondary aviation programs in the United States both at the student and faculty levels. Data concerning the number of students who completed baccalaureate degrees in aviation was collected via the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). It was found that 560 (10.5%) students among the 5,355 total that completed a degree in an aviation related field in 2007 were female. Also, of 434 full-time aviation faculty members employed at 74 different aviation programs meeting the criteria of this study, 35 (8.1%) were found to be female. 84 faculty were identified in an academic leadership positions and of these individuals, 10 (1 1.9%) were women. These participation rates were found to be higher than those found among the aircraft pilot population and in the aviation industry in general. The level of involvement of women in aviation higher education in recent years has shown no significant improvement among students, however, there has been a small increase among faculty in comparison to the findings of four out of five previous studies. Over the past three decades, the enrollments of women in postsecondary education have grown significantly. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the percentage of undergraduate students who are women grew fiom 42.3 in 1970 to 56.1 in 2000 (U.S. Department of Education, 2004). By 2005 this number had risen further to 57.4% (National Center for Education Statistics, 2008). These figures, however, are averages across all majors and fields of study. Historically, though, there have been certain subjects in which women have lagged such as in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields (Turney, 2004; Babco, 2003). In particular, women have consistently been underrepresented throughout the aviation industry (Hedge, 2007). The importance ofdiversity in higher education has been highlighted by a variety of research (Fassinger, 2008; Umbach, 2006; Lockwood, 2005; Turney, et al, 2002; Willdorf, 2000; Brinson and Kottler, 1993; Luedtke, 1993). Thus an assortment of programs and initiatives has been undertaken over the years to improve women and minority representation in general and

Case Study Methodology in the Aviation Industry

This was a paper showing the utility of the use of case study methodology as a means to enhance student learning in aviation education. A short discussion of the case study methodology based on R. Yin's case study approach was presented to give the reader background knowledge from which to perform a case study. Through the case study methodology, the aviation instructor can identify key variables of airline management, define and present these variables to the students in the classroom, and then have the students perform a case study investigation of their selected airline over the course of a semester. Day-to-day operational variables of aviation organizations can be investigated from several sources included documentation, archival records, direct observation, participant observation, and physical artifacts. Use of these data sources will ensure correlation of collected data among multiple sources and increased reproducibility of collected data thus strengthening the validity of the instructor's and students' study. A sample case study is presented with its associated selected, identified and defined variables. By tasking the students to perform the sequential parts of a case study in multiple parts over the course of a semester, each student will have a complete, well investigated case study of an airline of their choice at the end of the course. A sample case study of Aloha airlines is presented as an example of a completed case study on an airline. Recommendations for incorporating a case study into the curriculum of an airline management course are presented as a sample of the use of this teaching technique in the aviation classroom.